Tree-ring reconstruction of summer temperature for A.D. 1475-2003 in the central Hengduan Mountains, Northwestern Yunnan, China

Climatic Change

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 455-467

  Li, Zong Shan ^a   Zhang, Qi Bin ^a   Ma, Keping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL TEMPERATURE; CLIMATIC FACTORS; GLACIER FLUCTUATIONS; HENGDUAN MOUNTAINS; HIGH MOUNTAINS; LOW-FREQUENCY VARIATIONS; NORTHWESTERN YUNNAN; PALEOCLIMATE STUDIES; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; RING-WIDTH; STUDY AREAS; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; TREE RING RECORDS; TREE RINGS; TREE-RING RECONSTRUCTION;

CLIMATOLOGY; LANDFORMS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

FORESTRY;

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SUMMER; TREE RING; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

CHINA; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGY; MOUNTAINS; PICEA BRACHYTYLA; RINGS; TEMPERATURE;

CHINA; HENGDUAN MOUNTAINS; YUNNAN;

PICEA; PICEA BRACHYTYLA;

EID: 83055194698     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0111-z     Document Type: Article

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